Aid by Sector
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities
The Evidence Fund - 300708
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
Low-carbon Agriculture for avoided deforestation and poverty reduction Phase II (Rural Sustentavel)
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The programme has 3 projects; PRS Caatinga, PRS Cerrado and PRS Amazon. As a follow-up phase to a similar ICF intervention in Brazil, the programme aims to restore deforested and degraded land on small- and medium-sized farms and promote low carbon agriculture practises.
Land Degradation Neutrality Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The LDN Fund invests in projects which reduce or reverse land degradation and thereby contribute to ‘Land Degradation Neutrality’. The LDN Fund is co-promoted by the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Mirova. It is a public-private partnership using public money to increase private sector investment in sustainable development. The fund invests in sustainable agriculture, forestry and other land uses globally. The Fund was launched at the UNCCD’s COP 13 in China in 2017.
The eco.business Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The eco.business fund is a public-private partnership investment fund which aims to shift incentives in financial institutions (i.e. Banks) towards investing in nature, by embedding social and environmental risk into investment decisions, catalysing transformational change in the financial sector. The fund will increase lending to businesses which incorporate sustainable practices that contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, climate change mitigation and adaptation to its impact across South America: Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
A global programme supporting governance and market reforms aimed at reducing the illegal use of forest resources, benefitting poor forest-dependent people, promoting sustainable growth and climate change mitigation in developing countries.
Agriculture Transformation in Ghana
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To accelerate economic transformation in Ghana through developing markets for agriculture and trade, improving resilience to climate change, and creating additional jobs and increased incomes by focusing on the development of high potential value chains in pro-poor sectors, supporting them to become productive, competitive and attractive for investment.
Productivity for Prosperity (P4P)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Productivity for Prosperity is a sustainable economic transformation programme that will increase labour productivity and climate-resilience in Tanzania’s job-creating sectors. It will achieve this through private sector development (investment facilitation, trade facilitation and building capabilities of firms) and business environment reform (supporting proportionate and predictable regulation). P4P will dovetail with the UK’s external engagement and influencing activities in Tanzania. P4P will initially prioritise the agroprocessing and horticulture sectors, and will provide flexible support to bolster the UK’s current and future prosperity objectives.
Climate and Ocean Adaptation and Sustainable Transition (COAST) programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Climate and Ocean Adaptation and Sustainable Transition (COAST) programme aims to improve vulnerable coastal communities' resilience to climate change and prosperity from a more sustainable use of their marine environment. COAST will achieve this through a multi-component approach focused on: i) protecting and restoring coastal habitats providing nature based solutions (e.g. mangroves, seagrass, coral reefs), ii) improving small scale fisheries management, governance, sustainability and productivity, iii) scaling more sustainable, climate resilient, low carbon aquaculture production by coastal communities and the private sector, and iv) strengthening coastal planning and governance. COAST will focus in up to six priority countries, first building evidence around themes ii) and iii) and supporting science based blue carbon policies, followed by regulatory strengthening and grants for local level projects. COAST is part of the UK's £500m Blue Planet Fund portfolio.
Somaliland Development Fund (SDF) Phase II Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve governance, accountability and public service delivery by the Government of Somaliland. This will promote long-term stability in the region and improve the lives of poor Somalilanders. This programme contributes to our SDGs by delivering public services, and building core government capacity and functions and will result in improved planning and delivery for development priorities by 2022.
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) was established in 2008 to assist developing countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (all activities commonly referred to as "REDD+") by providing value to standing forests. The FCPF is a multi-donor Trust Fund managed by the World Bank. It has two separate but complementary funding mechanisms — the Readiness Fund and the Carbon Fund.
REDD Early Movers (REM) Programme
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The REDD+ Early Movers (REM) Programme, currently operational in Latin America, aims to reward countries or jurisdictions considered as pioneers in forest protection and climate mitigation. It targets countries or regions that have already taken ambitious actions to protect forests and provides conditional payments upon verified emission reductions from avoided deforestation (REDD+). Results-based payments in the REM Programme are invested according to a “benefit-sharing strategy” that has been jointly agreed by partners.
BioCarbon Fund (BioCF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Fund will provide technical assistance for REDD+ implementation and measures which improve the enabling environment for private sector investment; offer a finance for Verified Emission Reductions associated with avoided deforestation; and secures private sector finance, for example through purchasing commitments for sustainable commodities produced in the jurisdiction (sometimes called ‘offtake agreements’). Each country programme under the BioCarbon Fund will operate at the jurisdiction-scale, that is within a landscape-wide area that is governed by a single political jurisdiction.
Mobilising Finance for Forests (MFF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Mobilising Finance for Forests (MFF) will use a blended finance investment approach to combat deforestation and other environmentally unsustainable land use practices in tropical forest regions that are contributing to global climate change.
Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance (LEAF) Coalition
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The LEAF Coalition (LEAF) is an ambitious new public-private initiative designed to accelerate climate action and reduce deforestation by providing results-based finance to countries committed to protecting their tropical forests.
IDB Amazon Bioeconomy and Forests Management Multi-Donor Trust Fund
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The AMDTF supports national and subnational entities, and public and private entities, in the Amazonian countries to plan, design and implement investments to halt deforestation, increase forest restoration and conservation, and improve sustainable landscape management and climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Amazon region.
Amazon Fund
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Amazon Fund is a REDD+ mechanism created to raise donations for non-reimbursable investments in efforts to prevent, monitor and combat deforestation, as well as to promote the preservation and sustainable use in the Brazilian Amazon. The UK committed to funding £115 million total for results-based finance at $5 per tonne and £3.5 million for technical assistance, of which £2 million will be destined for GIZ Action for Forests programme. £1.5 million is for MEL.
Accelerating Innovation Monitoring For Forests (AIM4Forests)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Programme supports 20 countries with institutionalised National Forest Monitoring Systems that inform domestic policy and decision-making and provide high-integrity MRV through modern monitoring technologies and innovative approaches. The Programme alos aims to enable participation in REDD+ and emerging carbon finance opportunities, and drive down global emissions from the forest and land-use sector, while strengthening AFOLU contribution in NDCs.
Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership (FCLP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Under the UK Presidency of COP26, over 140 governments signed the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use, committing to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 while promoting sustainable development. To support this, the UK helped establish the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), a coalition focused on achieving the goals of the declaration. The FCLP provides a platform for political action and targeted 'Action Areas' to address barriers to forest protection. This program will fund the establishment of a Secretariat to support FCLP members from 2024-2030, including the development of ‘Forest Country Packages’ to enhance financial impact for forests.
Productive Social Safety Net Programme in Tanzania Phase II & III
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Productive Social Safety Net Programme - Phase II & III, which will reach 1.3m households, which are the poorest 15%, with conditional cash transfers, and green public works. The programme aims to improve the resilience and opportunities of the extreme poor by reducing the depth of the income poverty, improving food consumption and increasing their resilience to climate-related shocks. FCDO will also support the Government of Tanzania to initiate a sustainable nationwide social protection scheme.
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